My mother is suffering from Alzheimer's, and Ramadan has arrived without her fasting. Is she required to pay an expiation for this?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman asking, and she says: My mother is ill with a disease called Alzheimer's, which is a loss of memory. In its advanced stages, she forgets at times and remembers at others, and the forgetting is more frequent. She is unable to determine the time. He says, but she knows us, her sons and daughters. Ramadan has arrived and she did not fast. Her question is: Is she required to pay an expiation for this?
Answer:
She did not fast? Why did you not mention that? That Ramadan has arrived and she fasts? You mentioned it to the people. In any case, she must make up the days she did not fast, but in the future, she should remember.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman asking, and she says: My mother is ill with a disease called Alzheimer's, which is a loss of memory. In its advanced stages, she forgets at times and remembers at others, and the forgetting is more frequent. She is unable to determine the time. He says, but she knows us, her sons and daughters. Ramadan has arrived and she did not fast. Her question is: Is she required to pay an expiation for this?
Answer:
She did not fast? Why did you not mention that? That Ramadan has arrived and she fasts? You mentioned it to the people. In any case, she must make up the days she did not fast, but in the future, she should remember.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [970 -3022] أمي مريضة بالزهايمر، وقد دخل رمضان ولم تصم، فهل عليها كفارة في ذلك؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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